Cephalonia
Sapphire blue seas, bright white sugar-cube houses, breathtaking views, nectar-like wine… Cephalonia is as gorgeously Greek as it gets! Got a spare memory card for your digital camera? Because you’re certainly going to need it! The largest of the idyllic Ionian islands, Cepahlonia is just one oh-my-god-look-at-that lovely sight after another. With golden beaches lapped by eye-achingly azure waters, fishing villages filled with bobbing boats and marshmallow-coloured Venetian-style buildings, it’s enough to make you feel positively poetic. Add lively local tavernas and resonances of ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’ (which was based and filmed on the island) and you’ve everything you need to feed body and soul.
Don’t Miss
Fiskardo Village – With pastel-hued houses sporting flower-bedecked balconies, Fiskardo is absurdly picturesque. Pull up a chair at one of the harbourside restaurants or check out the chic boutiques.
Sami – Follow in Nicholas Cage’s footsteps at the spot where Captain Corelli's Mandolin was filmed. Stretch out on the beach or hang out with the locals in a traditional coffee shop.
Melissani Lake – Take a boat ride onto this sheer-sided underground lake where shafts of sunlight stream in through the collapsed cave roof, turning the water as blue as mouthwash.
Cephalonia Action Ashore
- Take a tour round the Rombola Winery and get a taste for the local hooch.
- Visit pretty Kourkoumelata, lovingly rebuilt after the 1953 earthquake.
- Take a boat trip on the turquoise waters of onceunderground Melissani Lake.
- Try and tell your stalactites from your stalagmites in the 2 million-year-old Drogarati Cave.
- Be dazzled by the sugarwhite sand and bright blue water of picture-perfect Myrtos Bay.
